Bible Verses About Genetic Engineering
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for genetic engineering, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,777 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 15:38-39. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Genetic Engineering
1 Corinthians 15:38-39703 votes
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Leviticus 19:19531 votes
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Ecclesiastes 7:13414 votes
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Psalms 139:13-16208 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Genesis 1:11-12202 votes
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Matthew 15:13164 votes
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
1 Corinthians 6:19158 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Timothy 4:4151 votes
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Romans 1:22-23130 votes
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Matthew 7:19119 votes
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Isaiah 17:10-11113 votes
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Genesis 1:26-27108 votes
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Colossians 1:16102 votes
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Deuteronomy 22:989 votes
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
Psalms 139:1459 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Acts 17:2639 votes
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Matthew 12:3337 votes
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Genesis 1:2732 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2032 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 15:3921 votes
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Jeremiah 1:520 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Matthew 6:24-3420 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Corinthians 3:16-1720 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Genesis 3:1-2418 votes
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Psalms 139:1318 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
What does the Bible say about genetic engineering?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 15:38-39 on the subject of genetic engineering. Across 3,777 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 19:19, Ecclesiastes 7:13, Psalms 139:13-16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.